AI Daily Insights No. 69 · October 12, 2026
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Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview API pricing

Gemini · checked against the official price page on 2026-10-12

Current price

USD per million tokens.

Input2
Input (cache hit)0.2
Output12

Prompts up to 200K tokens; above that $4 input, $0.40 cached, $18 output

Official price page ↗

What it costs

At the prices above, with no cache hits. Models priced in USD are converted at 1 USD = 6.733 CNY (PBoC central parity, 2026-10-09).

10M input and 2M output tokens a month$44 (about ¥296)
100M input and 20M output tokens a month$440 (about ¥2,963)
1000M input and 200M output tokens a month$4,400 (about ¥29,625)

A single call with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens costs about $0.01; ten thousand such calls cost about $100 (about ¥673).

For your own usage: API cost calculator

Where it ranks

Ordered by the monthly cost of 100M input and 20M output tokens, cheapest first, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is number 17 of 21 models. Models priced in USD are converted at 1 USD = 6.733 CNY (PBoC central parity, 2026-10-09).

1. OpenAI gpt-6-luna135 CNY / month
2. Anthropic Claude Haiku 5.5135 CNY / month
3. Zhipu GLM-5.3-Flash136 CNY / month
4. DeepSeek deepseek-flash270 CNY / month
5. Qwen qwen3.7-plus360 CNY / month
6. MiniMax MiniMax-M3378 CNY / month
7. MiniMax MiniMax-M2.7378 CNY / month
8. Google Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite539 CNY / month
9. Google Gemini 3.8 Flash1,010 CNY / month
10. DeepSeek deepseek-v4-pro1,080 CNY / month
11. Kimi kimi-k2.7-code1,190 CNY / month
12. Kimi kimi-k2.61,190 CNY / month
13. Zhipu GLM-5.31,360 CNY / month
14. Qwen qwen3.8-max1,920 CNY / month
15. OpenAI gpt-6.1-sol2,693 CNY / month
16. Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.52,693 CNY / month
17. Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview2,963 CNY / month
18. Kimi kimi-k34,000 CNY / month
19. Anthropic Claude Opus 5.55,386 CNY / month
20. OpenAI gpt-6-astra13,466 CNY / month
21. Anthropic Claude Fable 5.113,466 CNY / month

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